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• ZE BIG TWELEVEN DETESTS YOUR FEEBLE MATH

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:21 pm

  Tags: Media Whoring, Excellence Is The Product Of Managerial Synergies Flowi, Blog Buddies, Big 10 Conference, Coaches The Bcs Scandals Arrests And Other Eccentri, College Football, Southeastern Conference

  Jim Delany of the Big Ten, normally referred to around here as “dikfase” (SEC grad, sorry,can’t spell but that won’t surprise you, right Jim?) has numerous irons in the fire at the moment. And now, my stunning version of “Hustlin’” by Rick Ross. First he’s busy ramming the Big Ten Network (The

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• The iPod and the "product transition"

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Arstechnica, Benreitzes, Forbes, Imac, Ipod, Product Update, Producttransition, Productupdate, Refresh, Speculation, Thinksecret, Ultraportable, Update

  and these mysterious "product transitions." So what's the deal there?Almost unanimously, the analysts are predicting a product shakeup, specifically in the iPod family. Ars says multitouch is coming, Forbes suggests that Apple tipped its hand to upcoming product changes, and Apple Insider has Ben Reitzes, who was the first analyst to

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• "Google Promotion" Box Found On Google Product Search

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Google Product Search

  Label within Google Product Search results. Ionut Alex. Chitu saw this being tested for a product search on watch and send Philipp a screen capture. I personally do not see this promotion box come up. This is the second sighting of a box labeled "promotion" in Google results. Click to continue reading...

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• Kyte.tv Casting The TechCrunch Meet-Up

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:43 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Kyte

  Interactive video startup Kyte.tv will also be broadcasting tonight’s party on one of their interactive TV channels. The channel will be available at kyte.tv/techcrunch and host video and photos from the event. Party goers can stop by the booth to make quick recorded messages or upload pictures and video from their mobile phones to the

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• The TechCrunch Meet-Up Live: The Next Best Thing To Being There

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:30 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles

  The TechCrunch Meet-up at August Capital Live, complements of Ustream.tv. The feed should be live from 5:30pm PST and is scheduled to finish around 10pm. Chat is available on Ustream.tv here. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

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• How Much Is A Facebook User Worth? At Least $0.30

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook, Fbexchange, Lookery, Rockyou

  People aren’t wasting any time trying to figure out how to monetize all those thousands of Facebook apps that have sprung up over the last couple of months. At least three advertising experiments have launched - the most promising, by far, is RockYou. fbExchange The first out the door was FBExchange, a copycat of the LinkExchange idea from

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• Dear Podtech: I'm Not Your VP Marketing

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Podtech

  So Podtech is apparently unhappy with the post I wrote last evening - What's Really Going On With Podtech? First Podtech subsequeCEO John Furrier emailed me repeatedly this morning asking for changes, then later Robert Scoble wrote on Twitter that much of my post was incorrect. It may well be incorrect, but it is certainly what I believe to be

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• iPhone Class Action Lawsuit

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Iphone

  A Cook County, Illinois resident has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over the iPhone. Jose Trujillo is claiming that Apple and AT&T misled iPhone buyers by not clearly informing them that the iPhone battery was sealed, and could only be professionally replaced. According to the papers: Unknown to the Plaintiff, and

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• MediaWhiz Buys Another Ad Startup, AuctionAds

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Auctionads

  Performance marketing company MediaWhiz has snatched up eBay affiliate marketing service AuctionAds, which launched back in March. The price was not disclosed. AuctionAds is an advertising widget that serves contextually relevant eBay auctions based on tags supplied by the publisher. MediaWhiz had previously purchased another sensibly named

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• Zazzle Rumor: Big Hedge Fund Investment

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:02 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Zazzle

  Here’s an unconfirmed but well sourced rumor: silicon valley based Zazzle will be closing a second round of financing in the $30 million range, at a $300+ million pre-money valuation. The round is expected to be led by an as-yet-unnamed hedge fund. Kleiner Perkins (which led the company’s $16 million Series A round in 2005, is

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• Wikia Acquires Distributed Web Crawler Grub

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:51 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Grub, Wikia

  Wikia has acquired the distributed web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart. Grub utlizes spare computing cycles on users’ computers to index the web, a similar concept to that used by SETI@home in the search for extraterrestrial life. Grub originally started in 2000 and was purchased in 2003 by LookSmart. Grub was shut in 2005 following some

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• Profile Builder Launches Tonight At TechCrunch Meetup

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:22 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Profilebuilder

  launching and demoing their product on Profil.es. Profile Builder’s solution tackles the fragmentation of our online identity caused by the increasing number of services vying for our attention. With Profile Builder, you can create one profile to link together all of your bits of online identity onto one customizable profile. Users can

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• Trusted Opinion Adds Netflix Queuing

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Trusted Opinion

  Social networking startup Trusted Opinion has added Netflix Queuing to their recommendations focused offering. The feature allows Trusted Opinion members to read a review of a movie then instantly add it to their Netflix queue without leaving the page. Although it sounds simple, Netflix does not offer a public API and hence the feature had to be

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• What's Really Going On With Podtech?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:07 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Podtech

  will effectively become a production house and ad sales team for their partners. If they can complete the transition before they run out of cash, Podtech could still have a bright future ahead of it. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

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• Now We're Not Talking: Telstra Bans Facebook

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:12 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook

  Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, has banned its approximately 49,000 employees from using Facebook. As Cameron Reilly at G’Day World puts it, “This would be a retarded move for ANY company, let alone a company that is trying to position itself as a company that gets online.” The move is strange

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